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I originally posted about this on my college's subreddit, and someone commented and said that it would be a good story to share with you guys here.

Last night my boyfriend and I were walking through the tunnels below the residence halls, hand in hand. Ahead of us was a blonde girl with a really strange gait, suggesting some sort of motor issues. She turned around and looked at us and then screamed and ran around the corner. We both kinda laughed and said "What the fuck?" and kept walking. When we turned the corner, she was having a conversation in ASL with two other girls. I don't know ASL, but my boyfriend does, and apparently she was just frantically repeating, "THEY'RE HOLDING HANDS, THEY CAN'T DO THAT!" As we approached her, she stopped us and literally KARATE CHOPPED OUR HANDS APART. In retrospect, we probably should have asked her what the hell she was doing, but we were both too confused to even form coherent sentences. We tried our best to just ignore it and keep walking around the next corner. She literally FUCKING CHASED us around the corner, and continued to scream and sign at us and attempted to karate chop our hands apart again. My first instinct was to punch her, but I figured that it wasn't worth the inevitable lawsuit. She then ran away, presumably hoping to intercept us when we would reach her (we turned around and went outside instead of continuing on through the tunnels).

Others have commented on my story with similar experiences. There is also another story where in the middle of the night she was screaming bloody murder in the girl's bathroom of her dorm. Upon further inspection, she was completely naked and screaming at the mirror. It sounds like she may be mentally ill, possibly an unmedicated schizophrenic or something. Hopefully we don't get karate chopped by her again.

Well, I wasn't even thinking of the police when I made that comment. Though it assuredly applies to them, as you just unintentionally pointed out. The problem is the justification of aggression. This is bigger than the police, or any branch of a particular government. It is a problem with humanity and society. Good police never initiate force. Their entire profession (theoretically) exists to prevent that from happening.

Yep. And government soldiers, officers, officials and politicians can use violence and not only is it okay and normal, it is considered honorable and good. Pretty much everyone in the world shares this twisted understanding of morality.

All's fair once another being lays their hands on you in an aggressive manner. Good for OP for not reacting without thinking about it. Just saying, they wouldn't really be to blame if they'd instinctively reacted in self defense.

It's more exciting because my original post didn't contain any of the weird shit I found out later. I also didn't want to come across as overreacting, and I sent that thread to campus safety because I am genuinely concerned for this girl's well-being.

And I dunno, her erratic behavior in my encounter with her and her behavior described by other students puts her out of the scope of 'normal' weird. If you go around touching people and yelling them, you're putting yourself in danger of someone getting fed up with the bullshit and punching you.

Me too. Personally I think I wouldn't have been in the wrong if I had punched her but in the eyes of the law it would probably be more serious than just plain assault because she's clearly physically impaired and probably mentally ill.

edit: yeah not everyone lives in the States... keep down-voting the foreigners for asking!

edit2: wow, I live in Germany, but thank's to all the dicks, who imply I get the same results using Google in Germany, as you do in the States; you might want to educate yourselves by reading the Wikipedia article about "filter bubble"!
If you still don't understand what I mean, you might give this a read!

By the way: The acronym for German Sign Language is DGS (Deutsche Gebärdensprache); but thank's to a few ignorant cunts I've learnt that the American way is the only way!

The Brits do not use ASL. They use British Sign Language (BSL). Some British people, both hearing and deaf, may also know Makaton, but that's not a real language and isn't used in communication between deaf British people. ASL and BSL are not mutually intelligible and aren't even related to each other. Why would the Brits use ASL?

Aside from the fact that it's not remotely true and easily researched, it doesn't even make logical sense. Signed languages are not based on spoken languages, so why would they follow the same geographical distribution patterns? Most English-speaking countries have their own sign languages. More of those languages are derived from British Sign Language than from American Sign Language. ASL is itself not derived from British Sign Language, but from French Sign Language. ASL is spoken in the US and Canada. ASL-derived languages are spoken in West Africa and south Asia.

Well actually although ASL has it's roots in French Sign Language, they are actually quite different. My (deaf) ASL professor says that you can't use ASL to be understood in France except for some words. We have words in ASL that are completely different. Also, there are many signs in ASL that are slightly different based on region (similar to Americanized English and our regional dialects).

Obviously you are not aware of the fact that not everybody gets the same results with Google. When I google ASL I get this list of possible meanings from the German wikipedia as top result. In this list "American Sign Language" is the 17th entry.

This encounter reminds me of my good ol' ex neighbor "Southfield Sally". She was the type who would scream racial slurs at oncoming traffic wearing nothing but a nightie in the midst of 12 inches of snow. She brushed her teeth with laundry detergent and swallowed Ajax to "cure her collapsed lung"

Same here. For a while, I'd been considering majoring in Peace and Social Justice at my school, but listening to all the "use your wooooords" "violence is NEVER the answer" "active listening" shit, while inside I was thinking "no, you fucking hit them back", I realized that was not a good idea.

I'm pretty shy, too. I wish I was a badass...a lot of my heroes are badasses, I guess I keep hoping their "I give no shits" attitude will rub off on me if I read their books or listen to their music enough. :P

Dude you don't punch people with mental problems. The karate chop to break up their arms is kind of harmless man it would be way more appropriate to ask why she was karate chopping and what the problem actually was. If everyone just knocked out mentally handicapped person for a minor inconvenience due to their lack of understanding society would crumble. Ok too dramatic but just don't hit someone who in this case was a handicapped woman.

I suffer from depression and severe anxiety. This means I am mentally ill. This however does not mean that I am mentally handicapped. I believe I also made a comment somewhere in this thread where I mentioned my issues with social anxiety. It makes me anxious when people I don't know invade my personal space/touch me. The easiest way to relieve this anxiety is to physically get them to stop.

We just talk. He wears hearing aids. I tried taking an ASL class, but the professor was awful and expected us to just know things he didn't cover (that also weren't in the book) so I gave up on that. I would like to know ASL because it would give us another method of communicating if need be, but for now we just use voice. It's not insensitive to ask, I get asked that a lot when people find that out. I think it just comes from the misconception that all deaf/HOH folk use and know sign, when in reality some don't know it because it was never an available option for them, and some people just prefer voice to sign.

Too bad you don't live in San Antonio. San Antonio College has an excellent ASL program. Most of our professors are deaf. I'm not, but even though I'm only in ASL 2, I can make myself understood to many deaf people. We also have an interpreting program so they are very thorough on the ASL education here. My professor realized that he forgot to teach us something that was on our test and so he didn't count off for it, so that's good.

I'm waaaaay late to this party, but I wonder if she had a problem with the two of you being together since you aren't deaf. Well, that and she's nuts. Did you ever see that episode of Cold Case about the deaf school? They made it seem like interracial dating back in the 1950s or something...very taboo.

I actually thought that might be the case too, and I still think it might be. Most people don't care about it, but every once in a while you do come across an asshole that does act like it's super taboo, which is ridiculous.

I don't think this is creepy as it seems obvious that she has a mental illness. I have had plenty of "crazy people" encounters, but they are obviously mentally ill in some way. Yes, it makes me feel uncomfortable, but my first instinct isn't to punch them.

I don't like people touching me. I've struggled with social anxiety for years and the thought of people I don't know touching me makes me really anxious. The best way to relieve that anxiety from people touching me is to physically stop them from doing it again.

Schizophrenia is a mental disorders with different subsets. It is generally characterized by anxiety, paranoia, false beliefs, delusions or hallucinations, and an inability to act appropriately. This is just a very basic definition, however, and does not completely describe schizophrenia as a whole. I'm open to answering more questions about it if you have any!